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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
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More quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
Jorge Luis Borges
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
Jorge Luis Borges
The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
Jorge Luis Borges
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
Jorge Luis Borges
Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
Jorge Luis Borges
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
Jorge Luis Borges
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
Jorge Luis Borges
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
Jorge Luis Borges
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
Jorge Luis Borges
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
Jorge Luis Borges
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reality favors symmetry.
Jorge Luis Borges
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis Borges
